Parallel Chain Cross-Chain Transaction Method, Device and Storage Medium

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides a parallel chain cross-chain transaction method, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first transaction group; wherein the first transaction group comprising a first transaction on a main chain and a second transaction on a first parallel chain, and the first transaction group being packaged and generated by a matchmaking server or a wallet terminal; confirming an executability of the first transaction and recording the first transaction group onto the main chain, so that each node of the first parallel chain acquires and executes, from a corresponding main chain node, the second transaction, and each verification node of the first parallel chain packages first block information of a first block, wherein the first block information comprising an execution result of the second transaction; receiving the first block information sent by each corresponding verification node of the first parallel chain, and recording same onto the main chain to perform consensus on the first block; and confirming, according to the first block information of the first block passing through the consensus, whether the second transaction has been executed successfully: if so, completing the execution of the first transaction. The present invention provides a cross-chain transaction mechanism between a main chain and a parallel chain.

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION Field of Invention

The present invention relates to the technical field of cross-chaintransaction, and more particularly to a parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method, device and storage medium.

Description of Related Arts

Conventional cross-chain transaction solutions typically employ sidechain/relay, hash lock, multi-party computing lock, and etc. Forexample, BTC Relay is a relatively typical and mature relay application.

The disadvantages of these prior solutions are that, on one hand, whenone of the two chains of the cross-chain transaction fails, thetransaction executing on the other chain cannot be withdrawn, which istherefore difficult to guarantee the atomicity of the cross-chaintransaction and may lead to fund loss of the user; on the other hand,none of these existing solutions provides a cross-chain transactionsolution designed for a parallel chain construction, and they are allunsuitable for cross-chain transactions between a main chain and aparallel chain.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

In view of the above deficiencies or drawbacks in the prior art, it isdesirable to provide a parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,device and storage medium suitable for cross-chain transactions betweena main chain and a parallel chain and further desires to guarantee theatomicity of cross-chain transactions.

In a first aspect, the present invention provides a parallel chaincross-chain transaction method, adapted for a main chain nodecorresponding to a verification node of a parallel chain, including:

receiving a first transaction group, wherein the first transaction groupcomprises a first transaction on a main chain and a second transactionon a first parallel chain, packaged and generated through a matchmakingserver or a wallet terminal;

confirming an executability of the first transaction and recording thefirst transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of the nodesof the first parallel chain to respectively acquire and execute thesecond transaction from the corresponding main chain node and for eachof the verification nodes of the first parallel chain to respectivelypackage a first block information of a first block, wherein the firstblock information comprises the execution result of the secondtransaction;

receiving the first block information sent by the correspondingverification nodes of the first parallel chain, and recording same ontothe main chain to perform consensus, on the first block; and

confirming, according to the first block information of the first blockpassing through the consensus, whether the second transaction has beenexecuted successfully: if yes, completing the execution of the firsttransaction.

In a second aspect, the present invention also provides a parallel chaincross-chain transaction method, adapted for a main chain nodecorresponding to a non-verification node of a parallel chain, including:

receiving a first transaction group, wherein the first transaction groupcomprises a first transaction on a main chain and a second transactionon a first parallel chain, packaged and generated through a matchmakingserver or a wallet terminal;

confirming the executability of the first transaction and recording thefirst transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of the nodesof the first parallel chain to respectively acquire and execute thesecond transaction from the corresponding main chain node and for eachof the verification nodes of the first parallel chain to respectivelypackage and send a first block information of a first block to thecorresponding main chain node to record the first block information onthe main chain for performing consensus to the first block, wherein thefirst block information comprises the execution result of the secondtransaction; and

confirming, according to the first block information of the first blockpassing through the consensus, whether the second transaction has beenexecuted successfully: if yes, completing the execution of the firsttransaction.

In a third aspect, the present invention provides a parallel chaincross-chain transaction method, adapted for a verification node of aparallel chain, including:

acquiring and executing a second transaction of a first transactiongroup from the corresponding main chain node, wherein the firsttransaction group comprises a first transaction on the main chain and asecond transaction on the first parallel chain, packaged and generatedthrough a matchmaking server or a wallet terminal and sent to the mainchain node, wherein the first transaction group is recorded onto themain chain when the main chain node received and confirmed theexecutability of the first transaction; and

packaging and sending the first block information of the first block tothe corresponding main chain node to be recorded onto the main chain forperforming consensus to the first block, so as for the main chain nodeto confirm whether the second transaction is executed successfully basedon the first block information of the first block with consensus: ifyes, completing the execution of the first transaction. Here, the firstblock information comprises the execution result of the secondtransaction.

In a fourth aspect, the present invention also provides a device, whichincludes one or more processors and a storage, wherein the storageincludes commands executable by the one or more processors to allow theone or more processors to perform parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethods provided in accordance with embodiments of the presentinvention.

In a fifth aspect, the present invention also provides a storage mediumwith computer program stored therein so as for allowing a computer toperform a parallel chain cross-chain transaction method provided inaccordance with the embodiments of the present invention.

Parallel chain cross-chain transaction methods, devices and storagemedia provided by the embodiments of the present invention package afirst transaction on a main chain and a second transaction on a parallelchain into a transaction group and send it to a main chain node andexecute the second transaction on the parallel chain after theexecutability of the first transaction is confirmed, so as to utilizethe consensus mechanism on the parallel chain to confirm the successfulexecution of the second transaction and then complete the execution ofthe first transaction on the main chain, thereby providing a secure andreliable cross-chain transaction mechanism suitable for a main chain anda parallel chain;

The parallel chain cross-chain transaction methods, devices, and storagemedia provided by some embodiments of the present invention furtherfreeze the asset transacted by the first transaction and complete theexecution of the first transaction after the second transaction issuccessfully executed, or undo the freezing operation after theexecution of the second transaction has failed, thereby ensuring theatomicity of the asset type cross-chain transaction.

The parallel chain cross-chain transaction methods, devices, and storagemedia provided by some embodiments of the present invention furtherexecute the first transaction on the main chain beforehand and undo thepre-executed first transaction when the execution of the secondtransaction has failed, so as to ensure the atomicity of the cross-chaintransaction with the undoable main chain transaction.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Other features, objects, and advantages of the present application willbecome more obvious through referring to the detail descriptions of theembodiments that are illustrated in, but not limited by the followingfigures.

FIG. 1 is an application scenario view of a parallel chain cross-chaintransaction according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of the method of FIG.2.

FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of another preferred embodiment of the methodof FIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of another parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of the method of FIG.5.

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of another preferred embodiment of the methodof FIG. 5.

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of another parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a composition diagram of a device according to an embodimentof the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The present application is described in further detail below inconnection with the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It is to beunderstood that the specific embodiments described herein are forillustrative purposes only and shall not limit the present invention. Itis also to be noted that, for ease of description, only portions thatare relevant to the present invention to be described are shown in theaccompanying drawings.

It should be noted that, without conflict, features in the presentapplication and features in the embodiments may be combined with eachother. The present application will now be described in detail withreference to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention provides a solution to perform a cross-chaintransaction between a main chain and a parallel chain. According to thepresent invention, a main chain may have one or more parallel chainsdeployed therewith.

Each node of a parallel chain corresponds to a different main chainnode, and can communicate with the corresponding main chain node, whilethe nodes of the parallel chain cannot communicate with each other.

The consensus mechanism of the parallel chain relies on the consensus ofthe main chain: several verification nodes (typically 3f+1 nodes, whilef is a positive integer) are configured in the parallel chain. Theverification nodes respectively package the block information of theblock waiting for consensus and send the block information to thecorresponding main chain node. The main chain node records the blockinformation onto the main chain and verifies whether there are theconsensus mechanism of the parallel chain is by means of consensus ofthe backbone: several verification nodes (typically 3F+1, F are positiveintegers) are configured in the parallel chain). The verification nodesrespectively package the block information of the block to be consensusand send the block information to the corresponding main chain node. Themain chain node records the block information onto the main chain andverifies whether block information of the quantity not less than thefirst threshold number in each block information are the same: if yes,the parallel chain block passes the consensus and configures the“commit” identifier for authentication for the parallel chain block.

Solutions provided by the present invention are illustrated as followsalong with FIGS. 1-8.

FIG. 1 is an application scenario view of a parallel chain cross-chaintransaction according to an embodiment of the present invention. Asillustrated in FIG. 1, according to the present embodiment, a main chainhas several nodes (A, B, C, . . . T, . . . ) configured therein and thefirst parallel chain has 10 nodes (a1, b1, c1, . . . , t1) configuredtherein, wherein the cross-chain transaction solutions of the presentinvention will be illustrated with the examples that nodes a1, b1, c1,and d1 are configured as the verification nodes of the first parallelchain.

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod according to an embodiment of the present invention. Asillustrated in FIG. 2, according to the present embodiment, the presentinvention provides a parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,adapted for a main chain node (such as the main chain node A/B/C/D asshown in FIG. 1) corresponding to a verification node of a parallelchain, comprising:

S12: receiving a first transaction group, wherein the first transactiongroup comprises a first transaction on a main chain and a secondtransaction on a first parallel chain, packaged and generated through amatchmaking server or a wallet terminal;

S14: confirming the executability of the first transaction and recordingthe first transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of thenodes of the first parallel chain to respectively acquire and executethe second transaction from the corresponding main chain node and foreach of the verification nodes of the first parallel chain torespectively package a first block information of a first block, whereinthe first block information comprises the execution result of the secondtransaction;

S16: receiving the first block information sent by the correspondingverification nodes of the first parallel chain, and recording same ontothe main chain to perform consensus, on the first block; and

S18: S181: confirming, according to the first block information of thefirst block passing through the consensus, whether the secondtransaction has been executed successfully: if yes, executing step S183:completing the execution of the first transaction.

Taking the scenario shown in FIG. 1 as an example, when user A desiresto sell a certain membership on the main chain to exchange several mooncake credits on the first parallel chain, and issues a first transactionorder and when user B wants to exchange the membership on the main chainwith the quantity of moon cake credits on the first parallel chain, andissues a second transaction, the matching server makes a match to thetwo transaction orders, packages and generates a first transaction group(tx1, tx2), and sends the first transaction group (tx1, tx2) to the mainchain node. Here, tx1 is the first transaction for the user A totransfer the membership to the user B on the main chain, and tx2 is thesecond transaction for the user B to pay a number of moon cake creditsto the user A on the first parallel chain.

In the step S12, the main chain node A may directly receive the firsttransaction group (tx1, tx2) sent by the matchmaking server, and/or mayreceive the first transaction group (tx1, tx2) through synchronouscommunication with other main chain nodes.

In the step S14, the main chain node A confirms the executability of thefirst transaction tx1, which means to determine whether the user A hasthe membership that is transferable:

if the user A does not have the membership, or the membership cannot betransferred, then the first transaction tx1 cannot be executed and thesubsequent step will be ceased;

if it is confirmed that the first transaction tx1 is executable, thefirst transaction group (tx1, tx2) will be recorded onto the main chainthrough the main chain consensus.

After the first transaction group (tx1, tx2) is recorded on the mainchain, each node of the first parallel chain can obtain and execute thesecond transaction tx2 from the corresponding main chain node,respectively. For example, node a1 acquires tx2 from node A andexecutes, node b1 acquires tx2 from node B and executes, and so on.

Here, each of the verification nodes a1, b1, c1, d1 of the firstparallel chain respectively sends the first block information of thefirst block, block p, to be consensus with the execution results of thetx2 packaged to the corresponding main chain nodes A, B, C, Drespectively after performing the tx2.

In the step S16, main chain node A, B, C, and D respectively receive thefirst block information Block_(p-a1), Block_(p-b1), Block_(p-c1), andBlock_(p-D1) sent by each of the verification nodes a1, b1, c1, and D1of the first parallel chain, and record the first block informationBlock_(p-a1), Block_(p-b1), Block_(p-c1), Block_(p-d1) on the main chainthrough the consensus mechanism of the main chain; it is determinedwhether not less than a first threshold value (the quantity isconfigured as 3 for this embodiment) of all the first block informationare consistent to each other, wherein if, for example, at least three ofthe first block information Block_(p-a1), Block_(p-b1), Block_(p-c1),Block_(p-d1) are the same, the parallel block, Block_(p), passes aconsensus; otherwise, the consensus is not passed.

In the step S18, the main chain node A confirms whether tx2 issuccessfully executed according to the execution result of the tx2recorded in the block information of Block p of the parallel chain blockthat has passed the consensus:

if the execution fails, that is, the user B does not pay the number ofmoon cake credits to the user A on the first parallel chain, then tx1will not be executed;

if the execution succeeds, it is shown that the user B has paid thenumber of moon cake credits to the user A on the first parallel chain,then tx1 will be executed to transfer the membership of the user A tothe user B on the main chain.

The method illustrated in FIG. 2 is illustrated in an exemplar mannerthrough the above embodiment that applies the example as illustrated inthe scenario of FIG. 1 that the user A and the user B make a transactionfor membership and mooncake credit and the cross-chain transactions arematched by a matching server. According to more embodiments, the methodas shown in FIG. 2 may also be applied to any blockchain systememploying the main chain-parallel chain architecture of the parallelchain consensus mechanism described above, which can be applied to anycross-chain transaction of the chain asset or non-asset on the chain,and the same technical effects may also be achieved through matching andpackaging by the wallet terminal of the user to send the firsttransaction group.

The above embodiments provide a secure and reliable cross-chaintransaction mechanism adapted for the main chain and the parallel chainthrough packaging a first transaction on a main chain and a secondtransaction on a parallel chain into a transaction group and send it toa main chain node and execute the second transaction on the parallelchain after the executability of the first transaction is confirmed, soas to utilize the consensus mechanism of the parallel chain to confirmthe successful execution of the second transaction and then complete theexecution of the first transaction on the main chain.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of the method asshown in FIG. 2. Referring to FIG. 3, according to a preferredembodiment, the step S14 comprises:

S141: freezing the first asset of the first transaction and recordingthe first transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of thenodes of the first parallel chain to respectively acquire and executethe second transaction from the corresponding main chain node and foreach of the verification nodes of the first parallel chain torespectively package a first block information of a first block.

The step S18 also comprises:

S185: undoing the freezing operation when confirming the failure of theexecution of the second transaction.

Specifically, in the scenario shown in FIG. 1, for the example that whenthe user C and the user D reach an agreement that exchange 10 XXX coinson the main chain of the user C with 100 YYY coins on the first parallelchain of the user D, the wallet terminal of the user C can generate atwo-dimension code by scanning the wallet terminal of user D, or receivea signature order sent by the wallet terminal of user D, and package andgenerate a second transaction group (tx3,tx4), wherein tx3 is the thirdtransaction where the user C pays 10 XXX coins to the user D on the mainchain, and tx4 is the fourth transaction where the user D pays 100 YYYcoins to the user C in the first parallel chain.

The principles of the cross-chain transaction method illustrated in FIG.3 is the same as it of FIG. 2, except for:

In step S141, the node A not only needs to confirm that there are 10 XXXcoins in the account of the user C, but also freeze the 10 XXX coinsthat was payable, so as to prevent the 10 XXX coins from beingtransferred or paid out by the user C for other payments before actuallypaid to the user D.

In step S185, when node A confirms that tx4 has failed, the 10 XXX coinsin the user C account will be unfrozen.

The above embodiment illustrates an exemplary description of the methodof FIG. 3 by using cross-chain transactions of encrypted currency as anexample, and according to some other embodiments, the method illustratedin FIG. 3 may also be applied to cross-chain transactions of anydifferent type of on-chain asset, which may achieve the same technicaleffects as well.

According to the above embodiment, it further freezes the assettransacted by the first transaction in advance and complete theexecution of the first transaction after the second transaction issuccessfully executed, or undo the freezing operation after theexecution of the second transaction has failed, thereby ensuring theatomicity of the asset type cross-chain transaction.

FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of another preferred embodiment of the methodas shown in FIG. 2. Referring to FIG. 4, according to another preferredembodiment, the step S14 comprises:

S143: executing the first transaction and recording the firsttransaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of the nodes ofthe first parallel chain to respectively acquire and execute the secondtransaction from the corresponding main chain node and for each of theverification nodes of the first parallel chain to respectively package afirst block information of a first block.

The step S18 also comprises:

S187: undoing the executed first transaction when confirming the failureof the execution of the second transaction.

The principles of the cross-chain transaction method as illustrated inFIG. 4 is mainly the same as it of FIG. 2, except for that the firsttransaction is performed first, and the undoing is performed afterconfirming that the second transaction is failed, so as to furtherensure the atomicity of the cross-chain transaction.

The above embodiment further executes the first transaction on the mainchain beforehand and undo the pre-executed first transaction when theexecution of the second transaction has failed, so as to ensure theatomicity of the cross-chain transaction with the undoable main chaintransaction.

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of another parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method according to one embodiment of the present invention.The method as illustrated in FIG. 5 may be performed in conjunction withthe method as illustrated in FIG. 2.

As illustrated in FIG. 5, according to the present embodiment, thepresent invention provides a parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod for a main chain node (such as the main chain node E/H/T and etc.as shown in FIG. 1) corresponding to a non-verification node of aparallel chain, comprising:

S22: receiving a first transaction group, wherein the first transactiongroup comprises a first transaction on a main chain and a secondtransaction on a first parallel chain, packaged and generated through amatchmaking server or a wallet terminal;

S24: confirming the executability of the first transaction and recordingthe first transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of thenodes of the first parallel chain to respectively acquire and executethe second transaction from the corresponding main chain node and foreach of the verification nodes of the first parallel chain torespectively package and send a first block information of a first blockto the corresponding main chain node to record the first blockinformation on the main chain for performing consensus to the firstblock, wherein the first block information comprises the executionresult of the second transaction; and

S26: S261: confirming, according to the first block information of thefirst block passing through the consensus, whether the secondtransaction has been executed successfully: if yes, executing step S263:completing the execution of the first transaction.

Specifically, the cross-chain transaction principle of the method asillustrated in FIG. 5 is basically the same as the method illustrated inFIG. 2, except that the parallel chain node corresponding to the mainchain node of the method illustrated in FIG. 5 is not a verificationnode, so that the first block information sent by the correspondingparallel chain node will not be received, but coordinate with theconsensus execution along with the first block information by the mainchain node as illustrated in the method of FIG. 2.

FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of the method of FIG.5. The method illustrated in FIG. 6 may be performed in conjunction withthe method illustrated in FIG. 3.

Referring to FIG. 6, according to another preferred embodiment, the stepS24 comprises:

S241: freezing the first asset transacted by the first transaction andrecording the first transaction group onto the main chain, so as foreach of the nodes of the first parallel chain to respectively acquireand execute the second transaction from the corresponding main chainnode and for each of the verification nodes of the first parallel chainto respectively package and send a first block information of a firstblock to the corresponding main chain node to record the first blockinformation on the main chain for performing consensus to the firstblock.

The step S26 also comprises:

S265: undoing the freezing operation when confirming the failure of theexecution of the second transaction.

Specifically, the differences of the methods as illustrated in FIG. 6and FIG. 3 are the same as the differences of the methods illustrated inFIG. 5 and FIG. 2, which will not be repeated here.

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of another preferred embodiment of the methodas shown in FIG. 5. The method as illustrated in FIG. 7 may be performedin conjunction with the method as illustrated in FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 7, according to another preferred embodiment, the stepS24 comprises:

S243: executing the first transaction and recording the firsttransaction group onto the main chain, so as for each of the nodes ofthe first parallel chain to respectively acquire and execute the secondtransaction from the corresponding main chain node and for each of theverification nodes of the first parallel chain to respectively packageand send a first block information of a first block to the correspondingmain chain node to record the first block information on the main chainfor performing consensus to the first block.

The step S26 also comprises:

S267: undoing the executed first transaction when confirming the failureof the execution of the second transaction.

Specifically, the differences of the methods as illustrated in FIG. 7and FIG. 4 are the same as the differences of the methods as illustratedin FIG. 5 and FIG. 2, which will not be repeated here.

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of another parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method according to an embodiment of the present invention.The method illustrated in FIG. 8 may be performed in conjunction withthe method illustrated in FIGS. 2-7.

As illustrated in FIG. 8, according to the present embodiment, thepresent invention provides a parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod for verification nodes of a parallel chain (such as theverification nodes a1, b1, c1, d1 of the first parallel chain asillustrated in FIG. 1), comprising:

S32: acquiring and executing a second transaction of a first transactiongroup from the corresponding main chain node, wherein the firsttransaction group comprises a first transaction on the main chain and asecond transaction on the first parallel chain, packaged and generatedthrough a matchmaking server or a wallet terminal and sent to the mainchain node, wherein the first transaction group is recorded onto themain chain when the main chain node received and confirmed theexecutability of the first transaction; and

S34: packaging and sending the first block information of the firstblock to the corresponding main chain node to be recorded onto the mainchain for performing consensus to the first block, so as for the mainchain node to confirm whether the second transaction is executedsuccessfully based on the first block information of the first blockwith consensus: if yes, completing the execution of the firsttransaction. Here, the first block information comprises the executionresult of the second transaction.

Preferably, the first asset transacted by the first transaction isfrozen by the main chain node which received the first transaction groupbefore the first transaction group is record onto the main chain and isundone when a main chain node confirms the failure of the execution ofthe second transaction.

Preferably, the first transaction is executed before the firsttransaction group is record onto the main chain by a main chain node andis undone when the main chain node confirms the failure of the executionof the second transaction.

Specifically, the principles of the cross-chain transaction methodillustrated in FIG. 8 may be referred to it of FIGS. 2-7, which will notbe repeated here.

FIG. 9 is a composition diagram of a device according to one embodimentof the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, in another aspect, the present application alsoprovides a device 900, which includes one or more central processingunits (CPUs) 901 that can perform various suitable actions and processesin accordance with a program stored in a read-only memory (ROM) 902 or aprogram loaded into a random access memory (RAM) 903 from a storageportion 908. Various programs and data required for the operation of thedevice 900 are also stored in the RAM 903. The CPU 901, the ROM 902, andthe RAM 903 are connected to each other via a bus 904. An input/output(I/O) interface 905 is also connected to the bus 904.

The following components are connected to the I/O interface 905: aninput portion 906 including a keyboard, a mouse, and etc.; an outputportion 907 including a cathode ray tube (CRT), a liquid crystal display(LCD), and etc., and a speaker and etc.; a storage portion 908 includinga hard disk or the like; and a communication portion 909 including anetwork interface card, such as a LAN card, a modem, and etc. Thecommunication portion 909 performs communication process via a network,such as the Internet. A driver 910 is also connected to the I/Ointerface 905 based on the needs. A removable media 911, such asmagnetic disks, optical disks, magneto-optical disks, semiconductormemories, and etc., is mounted on the driver 910 based on the needs sothat the computer programs read therefrom can be installed into thestorage portion 908 as needed.

In particular, according to the embodiments of the present invention,the parallel chain cross-chain transaction method described in any ofthe above embodiments may be implemented as the computer program. Forexample, an embodiment of the present invention may provide a computerprogram product, which includes a computer program tangibly loaded on amachine-readable medium containing program code for performing aparallel chain cross-chain transaction method. According to suchembodiment, the computer program may be downloaded and installed fromthe network through the communication portion 909 and/or installed fromthe removable medium 911.

As yet another aspect, the present application also provides acomputer-readable storage medium, which may be a computer-readablestorage medium included in a device of the above-described embodiments,or a computer-readable storage medium that may be provided separately,without being assembled in the device. The computer-readable storagemedium stores one or more programs that are utilized by one or moreprocessors to perform a parallel chain cross-chain transaction methoddisclosed in the present application.

The flow chart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate theconstructions, functionality, and operation of possible implementationsof the systems, methods, and computer program products according tovarious embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each blockin the flow chart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, orportion of code, which includes one or more executable instructions forimplementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be notedthat, in some alternative implementations, the functions illustrated inthe block may occur out of the order illustrated in the figures. Forexample, two blocks represented in succession may, in fact, be executedsubstantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed inthe reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It willalso be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flow chartillustration, and combinations of the blocks in the block diagramsand/or flow chart illustration, may be implemented by special purposehardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts, orcombinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.

The units or modules described in the embodiments of the presentapplication may be implemented in a software manner, or may beimplemented in a hardware manner. The described units or modules mayalso be provided in a processor, for example, each of which may be asoftware program disposed in a computer or a mobile smart device or aseparately configured hardware device. The names of these units ormodules, in some cases, do not constitute a definition of the unit ormodule itself.

The above description is merely preferred embodiment(s) of the presentapplication and is intended to be illustrative of the principles of theapplication. It should be understood by those skilled in the art thatthe scope of the present invention referred to herein is not limited tothe particular combination of the above-described technical features,but also to other technical solutions formed by any combination of theabove-described technical features or the equivalent features thereofwithout departing from the concepts of the present application. Forexample, technical solutions that are formed through alternating orinterchanging the features described above and the technical featuresdisclosed in this application (but are not limited to) with similarfeature(s).

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 12. A parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,adapted for a main chain node corresponding to one of a plurality ofverification nodes of each node of a first parallel chain, comprisingthe steps of: (a) receiving a first transaction group, wherein the firsttransaction group comprises a first transaction on a main chain and asecond transaction on the first parallel chain, packaged and generatedthrough one of a matchmaking server and a wallet terminal; (b)confirming an executability of the first transaction and recording thefirst transaction group onto the main chain, so as for each node of thefirst parallel chain to respectively acquire and execute the secondtransaction from the corresponding main chain node and for each of theplurality of verification nodes of the first parallel chain torespectively package a first block information of a first block, whereinthe first block information comprises an execution result of the secondtransaction; (c) receiving the first block information sent by thecorresponding verification nodes of the first parallel chain, andrecording same onto the main chain to perform consensus on the firstblock; and (d) confirming, according to the first block information ofthe first block passing through the consensus, whether an execution ofthe second transaction has been executed successfully: if yes,completing an execution of the first transaction.
 13. The parallelchain-cross transaction method, as recited in claim 12, wherein theconfirming step (d) comprises: freezing the first asset transacted bythe first transaction; and confirming, according to the first blockinformation of the first block passing through the consensus, whetherthe second transaction has been executed successfully: if yes, thecompletion of the execution of the first transaction further comprising:undoing the freezing of the first asset when confirming a failure of theexecution of the second transaction.
 14. The parallel chain-crosstransaction method, as recited in claim 12, wherein the confirming step(d) comprises: executing the first transaction; confirming, according tothe first block information of the first block passing through theconsensus, whether an execution of the second transaction has beenexecuted successfully: if yes, the completion of the execution of thefirst transaction further comprising: undoing the executed firsttransaction when confirming a failure of the execution of the secondtransaction.
 15. The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method, asrecited in claim 12, wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod is executed by a device which comprises one or more processorsand a storage medium storing one or more programs, such that when theone or more programs are executed by the one or more processors, the oneor more processors are allowed to execute the step (a) to step (d). 16.The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method, as recited in claim13, wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transaction method isexecuted by a device which comprises one or more processors and astorage medium storing one or more programs, such that when the one ormore programs are executed by the one or more processors, the one ormore processors are allowed to execute the step (a) to step (d).
 17. Theparallel chain cross-chain transaction method, as recited in claim 14,wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transaction method is executed bya device which comprises one or more processors and a storage mediumstoring one or more programs, such that when the one or more programsare executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processorsare allowed to execute the step (a) to step (d).
 18. A parallel chaincross-chain transaction method, adapted for a main chain nodecorresponding to a non-verification node of a plurality of verificationnodes of each node of a first parallel chain, comprising the steps of:(a) receiving a first transaction group, wherein the first transactiongroup comprises a first transaction on a main chain and a secondtransaction on the first parallel chain, packaged and generated throughone of a matchmaking server and a wallet terminal; (b) confirming anexecutability of the first transaction and recording the firsttransaction group onto the main chain, so as for each node of the firstparallel chain to respectively acquire and execute the secondtransaction from the corresponding main chain node and for each of theplurality of verification nodes of the first parallel chain torespectively package and send a first block information of a first blockto the corresponding main chain node to record the first blockinformation on the main chain for performing consensus to the firstblock, wherein the first block information comprises an execution resultof the second transaction; and (c) confirming, according to the firstblock information of the first block passing through the consensus,whether an execution of the second transaction has been executedsuccessfully: if yes, completing an execution of the first transaction.19. The method, as recited in claim 18, wherein the confirming step (c)comprises: freezing the first asset transacted by the first transaction;and confirming, according to the first block information of the firstblock passing through the consensus, whether the second transaction hasbeen executed successfully: if yes, the completion of the execution ofthe first transaction further comprising: undoing the freezing of thefirst asset when confirming a failure of the execution of the secondtransaction.
 20. The method, as recited in claim 18, wherein theconfirming step (c) comprises: executing the first transaction;confirming, according to the first block information of the first blockpassing through the consensus, whether an execution of the secondtransaction has been executed successfully: if yes, the completion ofthe execution of the first transaction further comprising: undoing theexecuted first transaction when confirming a failure of the execution ofthe second transaction.
 21. The parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod, as recited in claim 18, wherein the parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method is executed by a device which comprises one or moreprocessors and a storage medium storing one or more programs, such thatwhen the one or more programs are executed by the one or moreprocessors, the one or more processors are allowed to execute the step(a) to step (c).
 22. The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,as recited in claim 19, wherein the parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method is executed by a device which comprises one or moreprocessors and a storage medium storing one or more programs, such thatwhen the one or more programs are executed by the one or moreprocessors, the one or more processors are allowed to execute the step(a) to step (c).
 23. The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,as recited in claim 20, wherein the parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method is executed by a device which comprises one or moreprocessors and a storage medium storing one or more programs, such thatwhen the one or more programs are executed by the one or moreprocessors, the one or more processors are allowed to execute the step(a) to step (c).
 24. A parallel chain cross-chain transaction method,adapted for a verification node of a first parallel chain, comprisingthe steps of: (a) acquiring and executing a second transaction of afirst transaction group from a main chain node correspondingly, whereinthe first transaction group comprises a first transaction on a mainchain and a second transaction on the first parallel chain, packaged andgenerated through one of a matchmaking server and a wallet terminal andsent to the main chain node, wherein the first transaction group isrecorded onto the main chain when the main chain node received andconfirmed an executability of the first transaction; and (b) packagingand sending the first block information of the first block to thecorresponding main chain node to be recorded onto the main chain forperforming consensus to the first block, so as for the main chain nodeto confirm whether an execution of the second transaction is executedsuccessfully based on the first block information of the first blockwith consensus: if yes, completing an execution of the firsttransaction, wherein the first block information comprises an executionresult of the second transaction.
 25. The parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method, as recited in claim 24, wherein the first assettransacted by the first transaction is frozen by the main chain nodewhich received the first transaction group before the first transactiongroup is recorded onto the main chain and a freezing of the first assetis undone when the main chain node confirms a failure of the executionof the second transaction.
 26. The parallel chain cross-chaintransaction method, as recited in claim 24, wherein the firsttransaction is executed through the main chain node before the firsttransaction group is recorded onto the main chain and the executionresult of the first transaction is undone when the main chain node isutilized to confirm a failure of the execution of the secondtransaction.
 27. The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method, asrecited in claim 24, wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transactionmethod is executed by a device which comprises one or more processorsand a storage medium storing one or more programs, such that when theone or more programs are executed by the one or more processors, the oneor more processors are allowed to execute the step (a) to step (b). 28.The parallel chain cross-chain transaction method, as recited in claim25, wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transaction method isexecuted by a device which comprises one or more processors and astorage medium storing one or more programs, such that when the one ormore programs are executed by the one or more processors, the one ormore processors are allowed to execute the step (a) to step (b).
 29. Theparallel chain cross-chain transaction method, as recited in claim 26,wherein the parallel chain cross-chain transaction method is executed bya device which comprises one or more processors and a storage mediumstoring one or more programs, such that when the one or more programsare executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processorsare allowed to execute the step (a) to step (b).